The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
January 2022
From Communications of the ACM
NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
We present a method that achieves state-of-the-art results for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes by optimizing an underlying continuous volumetric scene function using a sparse set of input views.
From Communications of the ACM
Eyelid Gestures for People with Motor Impairments
We present an algorithm to detect nine eyelid gestures on smartphones in real time and evaluate it with 12 able-bodied people and four people with severe motor impairments in two studies.
From Communications of the ACM
Technical Perspective: Eyelid Gestures Enhance Mobile Interaction
"Eyelid Gestures for People with Motor Impairments," by Mingming Fan et al., addresses the accessibility of mobile devices to people with motor impairments.
From Communications of the ACM
Technical Perspective: Neural Radiance Fields Explode on the Scene
Neural volume rendering exploded onto the scene in 2020, triggered by "NeRF," the impressive paper by Ben Mildenhall et al., on Neural Radiance Fields.